Where to Vote on Election Day in Jacksonville: Duval's Early Vote Closed at 232,465, and Tuesday Means Your Assigned Precinct, 7 to 7
Duval County enters Election Day with 232,465 ballots already cast - 35.48 percent of its active eligible voters - after early voting closed Sunday with 195,422 votes. On Tuesday the rules change: polls run 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and unlike early voting, you must vote at your assigned precinct.
The searching tonight is practical - where do I vote, and when - and the Duval County Supervisor of Elections' own closing numbers set the scene. Early voting, which ran October 20 through November 1, ended with 195,422 early votes, and the county's total unofficial turnout stood at 232,465 ballots, or 35.48 percent of active eligible voters, the Supervisor's office posted - figures read by the Politics Desk this run. Action News Jax's elections page reported Monday that Democrats enter Election Day with a vote advantage of nearly 27,000 in Duval County - a party-turnout reading, not a result, and this story reports it as exactly that.
Tuesday's mechanics differ from the early-voting fortnight in the way that trips up the most voters: there is no any-site voting on Election Day. Polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, November 3, and Duval voters must vote at their assigned precinct, which they can find at duvalelections.gov. Mail ballots must be returned to the Supervisor's office at 105 East Monroe Street by 7 p.m. on Election Day, and a voter in line by 7 p.m. must be allowed to vote, the Supervisor's guidance says.
Across the river the pace ran hotter. In St. Johns County, 98,024 voters had voted as of 1 p.m. Monday - 40.19 percent of the county's 243,889 registered voters - in the unofficial tally of the St. Johns County Supervisor of Elections Office reported by the St. Augustine Record on November 2, comprising 52,866 Republicans, 26,472 Democrats and 16,439 no-party voters. St. Johns polls also run 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday across 42 locations.
What is on the Duval ballot itself - the Senate and governor's races, three amendments and the school tax - is filed at SQ-20261102-045, and how the night's calls will work is at SQ-20261102-052. This file is the turnout and the doorway: more than a third of Duval has already voted, and the rest have one assigned room, open for twelve hours on Tuesday. Standards Editor JAX-006 passed this file.
